Launching on 14 June 2016, the Montpellier Panel briefing paper ‘Set for success: Climate-proofing the Malabo declaration’ explores the climate change-related targets set out by the Malabo Declaration, which was adopted in 2014 with the aim to improve nutrition and food security across Africa, and to increase agricultural productivity by 2025 while building resilience to the effects… Read more »
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OFF THE GROUND: INVESTING IN RWANDA’S AGRICULTURE VALUE CHAINS (2016)
Off The Ground: Investing in Rwanda’s Agriculture Value Chains is a briefing paper by Agriculture for Impact launched in May 2016 at a joint event with the All Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development . It is based on experiences gained by the team over a week-long visit to Rwanda in February… Read more »
A4I POLICY NIGHT, CLOSING THE GAP: SMALLHOLDER FINANCE IN 2016
SUBMISSION TO THE SUBSIDIARY BODY FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVICE (SBSTA 44), 2016
Agriculture for Impact responds to the SBSTA 44 call for evidence: “Identification and assessment of agricultural practices and technologies to enhance productivity in a sustainable manner, food security and resilience, considering the differences in agro-ecological zones and farming systems, such as different grassland and cropland practices and systems.” Agriculture and smallholder farmers are particularly vulnerable to… Read more »
GACSA ANNUAL FORUM, “CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE IN ACTION.”
On behalf of the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA) it is our pleasure to announce the GACSA Annual Forum, “Climate-Smart Agriculture in Action.” Registration for the event is now open at https://goo.gl/a2TsSY The agenda is available at http://goo.gl/RsYLi0 If you have any problems with these links, please contact the GACSA Facilitation Unit GACSA-Facilitation-Unit@fao.org Please… Read more »
BRIEFING: THE GLOBAL PANEL’S FORESIGHT PROJECT ON FUTURE DIETS
The APPG on Agriculture & Food for Development and the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition will host a reception at the House of Lords to launch the Global Panel’s forthcoming Foresight report on future diets, which will be launched in summer 2016. Agriculture for Impact’s Gordon Conway will be among Agriculture for Impact’s… Read more »
GLOBAL FORUM FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE (GFFA) 2016
The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) is an international conference that focuses on central questions concerning the future of the global agri-food industry. It gives representatives from the worlds of politics, business, science and civil society an opportunity to share ideas and enhance understanding on a selected topic of current agricultural policy. The… Read more »
THE SCHRÖDINGER LECTURE: CAN WE FEED THE WORLD SUSTAINABLY?
Professor Sir Gordon Conway presented the 28th annual Schrödinger lecture on 19th Jan 2016, from 17.30-18.30. Every individual across the globe should have the right and ability to access adequate, safe, and nutritional food at all times. But achieving worldwide food security is not going to be easy. We face growing populations, changing diets, lack of good… Read more »
AID & INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM AFRICA SUMMIT 2016
Improving aid delivery and development strategy in East Africa More than 250 senior representatives and advisors from regional governments, UN agencies, international and regional NGOs, CBOs, investors and donors, research institutes and the private sector are going to meet in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the Aid & Development Africa Summit 2016. You are invited… Read more »
CHATHAM HOUSE EVENT, A SUSTAINABLE FOOD FUTURE: PRODUCTION, SUPPLY AND CONSUMPTION
Montpellier Panel members Gordon Conway and Joachim von Braun will be among speakers at the Chatham House event A Sustainable Food Future: Production, Supply and Consumption, 7 Dec 2015 – 09:30 to 8 Dec 2015 – 13:30 Following the United Nations Summit to adopt the post-2015 development agenda in September 2015, the implications of the agreed goals… Read more »
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